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Diane , Armchair Tour Guide
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Aug 15, 2011 06:17PM
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Books set in Senegal:
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
He Sleeps: A Novel by Reginald McKnight
Polite Society by Melanie Sumner
I Get on the Bus: A Novel by Reginald McKnight
The Abandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman by Ken Bugul
The Last of the Empire: A Senegalese Novel by Ousmane Sembène
Under the Neem Tree by Susan Lowerre
Xala by Ousmane Sembène
Scarlet Song by Mariama Bâ
The Beggars' Strike by Aminata Sow Fall
Mariama by Mamadou Diallo
Money Order by Ousmane Sembène
Tribal Scars and Other Stories by Ousmane Sembène
Black Docker by Ousmane Sembène
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène
Sarah's Psalm by Florence Ladd
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Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord
Ambiguous Adventure by Hamidou Kane
The Spider Stone by Alex Archer
Senegal Sojourn: Selections from One Teacher's Journal by M. Kathleen Madigan
The Belly of the Atlantic by Fatou Diome
Senegal Blues by Brian Daldorph
hey Diane - looks like the Scarlet Skies book isn't available on 'zon anymore :( and that is the only format I could find
Three Strong Women by Marie NdiayeI'm currently reading this one, actually -- saw it reviewed and was bowled over by the sample I got for my Kindle.
Dee wrote: "hey Diane - looks like the Scarlet Skies book isn't available on 'zon anymore :( and that is the only format I could find"That's odd, as it was only published a week ago. I wonder what happened? Hopefully it will resurface.
I hope so too - it isn't even showing as a book on amazon now
However Long the Night: Molly Melching's Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph by Aimee Molloy
More books set in Senegal:
Africa Junction by Ginny Baily
Blood Stains - A Child of Africa Reclaims Her Human Rights by Khady
The Collected Poetry by Léopold Sédar Senghor
The Death Ship by B. Traven
Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya
Her Three Days by Ousmane Sembène
Juletane by Myriam Warner-Vieyra
Kaveena by Boubacar Boris Diop
The Knight and His Shadow by Boubacar Boris Diop
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
Mother Crocodile by Birago Diop
More books set in Senegal:
Niiwam and Taaw by Ousmane Sembène
Ourika by Claire de Duras
Poems Of A Black Orpheus by Léopold Sédar Senghor
Selected Poems by Léopold Sédar Senghor
Sirga by René Guillot
Squirting Milk at Chameleons: An Accidental African by Simon Fenton
Tribal Scars and Other Stories by Ousmane Sembène
The Wound by Malick Fall
I don't know how much of the book has to take place to call it "set in..." but 
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith has a chapter set in Senegal
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